The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-14

Manufactures In the south

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NAL. W. D. SYKES, Al CoLUMBtA
Major W. j. sykes, of this city,
SAYS he Memphis Appeal, recently
deliverad aspeoch al Columbia, Tenn.
ON the advantages of manufacturing
to the soutn aud disadvantages of the
South tor uao tliAci uring. FROM 1t
the following eA tracts are t8ken.
"W e find tuat tho products OF mar
utacjuriug are fl, III two to tour tine-
grerter annually Il au the amount OF
capitol invested in manutHc' urlng:
that lie increase in value of PRO IuCts
is In proportion to the class OF manu-
faCturc. | mean To say that crude or
coarse IN auuiao lures pay uuch less
on the cap tai than manufactures of
higher grades. The further YOU are
removed from tie raw material the
Greater the prciit, the value OF the pro
ducts of u needle factory, in proper
tion u cap /, is many times gre, ter
than in furnace for meking pig ron.
AS an ,ilusirs ion OF this Chicago j.
engaged 10 "a higher order OF uauu-
iantuting llan Pittsburg Her cau.-
tai invested l. sos, $780, S15. The prc-
Guct hmourt~ t. 80. 81 49, IltF-
brR has 5000, GlG cap,taE product
only H199l5.U5$. hose figures are
taken from he census of 1850. Con-
pare any citics OF the | uitcd States,
aEG you vii lind this true ~ to al
50 say to you, build factories, aud
esp.c. al y IA tories tor toe making Of
the iuer war, $. But promised /
IA r. az 4.
agricultural resources Of your cOur-
try, and how importai it Is tor you
TO get home III ,rkcd tor your very
great production of brehds tuli-, hogs,
cattle poultry, etc.
In production of corn, hogs, ca tie
and mules, Maury county cXccl5 any
county i'll kentuck y, rs shown by the
census OF 1880. Mauil county had in
1902, l7,07l bushels Of corn, 53,85l
hogs 1901 mules. While the farm
products OF Maury county are vas tlN
greater than the farm products OF
Davi dson. county yet the average VI lne
of farms in Maury is - per acre loss
than in Davidson, simply because Da-
wilson has so much more capital IN
We, ted in factories, hungry mouths to
be fed thus atlOrding greater home
market. With all our improved mh-
Chluery the labor aud Intelligence OF
one man can produce enough subsis-
tence for great number But man
cannot live by bread alone a high
civilization requires comfortable and
neat clothes, especially for our women
We require books aud pictures, and
ten thousand othor things have b.
como noCcssarics of lie. The pre-
Queer on tne farm ia not the only pro
rluccr. The man who makes ul'a
and flour and clothes and silks az ii
needles aud pins and harroWs, and
thousands OF vnrious artjcles is "a pro
ducer, aud worthy and necessary
one. " o have in this southern coun-
try too many engaged in making SUI
sietence. " q have to give too much
of our bread to get other art clcs
which are lu9t ~ necessary t. CiVlilZG-
ton. Let us make many of the sc ar
ticlcs ut homo and feed our bread ri
homo. In 1850 Tennessee sent $50,
OOO,OOO out of her border to purchase
articles that sho could have made
cheaper than whore they were mHnG-
featured. Think Oft, not only cleHr
loss of the money, but Wo would have
saved transportation on all our pro
duets we had to send to pay tor these
articles. Can any good reason be
given why the cotton, iron and im-
Der of the South may not he manuiaC-
tured in the South with creator pre-
lit than anywhere else" He could see
none.